From the sounds of it, you might want to change the Expand variable to wdSentence if it is just a single line. "fumei" would be better able to explain the paragraph characteristics than I (its a Word Styles thing). The funny blocks at the end of the string are the end of cell char. As soon as I find the link (its in the Word forum somewhere) i'll post it here as well. There was quite a discussion based on that little block and how to get rid of it.

here it is

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http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=18551